It's then up to councils to recognize new ethnic groups and support them at a local level.
If the city councils were to recognize that most of the poor people living in their jurisdictions have no choice but to earn their livelihoods from street vending and other such self-employment activities and were to therefore adopt a more positive policy stance (or at least a less negative one), the urban poor would have a better chance of earning their way out of poverty.
They call upon the council to formally recognize this new usage.
It was the regent's experience, together with the circumstance that Edward III of England, grandson of Philip the Fair, was under the influence of his disreputable mother, Isabella of France, that probably disposed the council at Vincennes to recognize Philip as king (April 1328).
Pakistan officials boycotted the International Cricket Council's annual awards ceremony over the weekend in protest of the council's failure to recognize the spin bowler Saeed Ajmal, whose achievements across all three formats include by far the most wickets, 29, by any bowler in T20 internationals since the 2010 T20 World Cup.
Burhan Ghalioun, an opposition leader and a member of the council, said he expected the council to be recognized in the coming weeks.
"We have decided to recognize the council as the only political, legitimate interlocutor to represent Libya," said Foreign Minister Franco Frattini of Italy, which plans to send an envoy to Benghazi within days.
On Monday, Montreal city council unanimously approved a motion to recognize the Quebec metropolis as a sanctuary city a move that would allow those without identification or documentation to use city services but critics are calling the move an act of political opportunism.
The man said to be Saadi Qaddafi also seemed to recognize the rebel council in his remarks, telling Al Arabiya, "We acknowledge that they represent a legal party, but we are also the government and a legal negotiating party".
Over time, his efforts won him many African allies, and when the uprising against him began this year, the African Union took months to recognize a rebel council as the country's governing authority.
Italy, the former colonial power in Libya with close economic ties to the country, said on Monday that it had decided to recognize the rebel council in Benghazi as what Foreign Minister Franco Frattini called its "sole legitimate interlocutor" in Libya, joining France and Qatar in formally recognizing the rebels.
